Tweetspeak Poetry

  • Home
  • FREE prompts
  • Earth Song
  • Every Day Poems—Subscribe! ✨
  • Teaching Tools
  • Books, Etc.
  • Patron Love

Twitter Poems: Top 10 Poetic Tweets

By Will Willingham 4 Comments

Top 10 Poetic Tweets birds on rail

We spend a lot of time on Twitter. (We’re Tweetspeak Poetry, after all.) In fact, we figure we read thousands of tweets every month. One of the things poetry and Twitter have in common (when done well) is an economy of words. When we see good Twitter poems,  we stop and take notice. Here are 10 poetic tweets we enjoyed seeing recently.

1.

#haiku #micropoetry outside picking sunrise out of an old apple tree

— Coyote (@CoyoteSings) August 12, 2015

2.

the sun’s heat through the parting clouds her third button #haiku — Dave Read (@AsSlimAsImBeing) August 10, 2015

3.

divided highway we don’t speak for hours #senryu #blog http://t.co/HZTZRprgXH

— Dave Read (@AsSlimAsImBeing) August 16, 2015

4.

#5lines #micropoetry tearing down a wall of brick clichés, the uncommon bonded in the mortar — Eusebeia Philos (@Eusebeia_Philos) August 16, 2015

5.

#5lines opening his cupped palm . . . a cricket with a little hop left

— sage stone (@sagestone_) August 15, 2015

6.

fine long stem the buttercup filled with sunlight #haiku — Beez Laine (@beezknez) May 2, 2015

7.

maybe death was just another figure, round shouldered by the vending machines with crumpled paper cup in triage like the rest of us #vss

— Brendan Bonsack (@BrendanBonsack) August 13, 2015

8.

In the hay meadow, the spools of grass wound tight. All the powder of what’s ahead. My shadow walking more like my mother. #endofsummer — Angie LaPaglia (@myearthgirl) August 13, 2015

9.

fading summer more seed capsules than poppies #micropoetry #tanshi http://t.co/IeGJIFHN8D

— caroline skanne (@CarolineSkanne) August 15, 2015

10.

tangled in bittersweet and woodbine I reach for the summers day catching only shadow and shade — Kathleen (@everettpoetry) August 14, 2015

 

Photo by Hiroyuki Takeda Creative Commons license via Flickr.
________________________

Browse more Twitter poems

Go deeper: browse our Poets and Poems collection

Every Day Poems Ocean

Want more poems? We’ll send you one, every day.

Buy a year of Every Day Poems, just $5.99

 

  • Author
  • Recent Posts
Will Willingham
Will Willingham
Director of Many Things; Senior Editor, Designer and Illustrator at Tweetspeak Poetry
I used to be a claims adjuster, helping people and insurance companies make sense of loss. Now, I train other folks with ladders and tape measures to go and do likewise. Sometimes, when I’m not scaling small buildings or crunching numbers with my bare hands, I read Keats upside down. My first novel is Adjustments.
Will Willingham
Latest posts by Will Willingham (see all)
  • Earth Song Poem Featured on The Slowdown!—Birds in Home Depot - February 7, 2023
  • The Rapping in the Attic—Happy Holidays Fun Video! - December 21, 2022
  • Video: Earth Song: A Nature Poems Experience—Enchanting! - December 6, 2022

Filed Under: Blog, poetry, Top Ten Poetic Tweets

Try Every Day Poems...

About Will Willingham

I used to be a claims adjuster, helping people and insurance companies make sense of loss. Now, I train other folks with ladders and tape measures to go and do likewise. Sometimes, when I’m not scaling small buildings or crunching numbers with my bare hands, I read Keats upside down. My first novel is Adjustments.

Comments

  1. Maureen says

    August 20, 2015 at 10:34 am

    bittersweet summer—
    more seed than apple, my mother
    old and parting

    *

    spools of old highway
    long hours walking round-shouldered
    just tree-cupped sunlight

    *

    fine powder cupped
    in paper capsules I reach
    ahead for another

    *

    his palm cupped, opening
    her third button—sunlight
    for the rest of us

    Reply
    • nancy marie davis says

      August 20, 2015 at 4:41 pm

      smile…

      Reply
  2. Kathleen says

    August 20, 2015 at 2:19 pm

    I so appreciate being included – thanks! K

    Reply
  3. nancy marie davis says

    August 20, 2015 at 4:43 pm

    words speaking
    tweeting from inside
    a yellow rose bush

    Reply

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Take How to Read a Poem

Get the Introduction, the Billy Collins poem, and Chapter 1

get the sample now

Welcome to Tweetspeak

New to Tweetspeak Poetry? Start here, in The Mischief Café. You're a regular? Check out our May Menu

Patron Love

❤️

Welcome a little patron love, when you help keep the world poetic.

The Graphic Novel

"Stunning, heartbreaking, and relevant illustrations"

Callie Feyen, teacher

read a summary of The Yellow Wallpaper

meet The Yellow Wallpaper characters

How to Write Poetry

Your Comments

  • Donna Hilbert on Poets and Poems: L.L. Barkat and “Beyond the Glass”
  • L.L. Barkat on Poets and Poems: L.L. Barkat and “Beyond the Glass”
  • Poets and Poems: L.L. Barkat and “Beyond the Glass” - Tweetspeak Poetry on Love, Etc.: Poems of Love, Laughter, Longing & Loss
  • Glynn on World War II Had Its Poets, Too

Featured In

We're happy to have been featured in...

The Huffington Post

The Paris Review

The New York Observer

Tumblr Book News

Stay in Touch With Us

Categories

Learn to Write Form Poems

How to Write an Acrostic

How to Write a Ballad

How to Write a Catalog Poem

How to Write a Ghazal

How to Write a Haiku

How to Write an Ode

How to Write a Pantoum

How to Write a Rondeau

How to Write a Sestina

How to Write a Sonnet

How to Write a Villanelle

5 FREE POETRY PROMPTS

Get 5 FREE inbox poetry prompts from the popular book How to Write a Poem

Shakespeare Resources

Poetry Classroom: Sonnet 18

Common Core Picture Poems: Sonnet 73

Sonnet 104 Annotated

Sonnet 116 Annotated

Character Analysis: Romeo and Juliet

Character Analysis: Was Hamlet Sane or Insane?

Why Does Hamlet Wait to Kill the King?

10 Fun Shakespeare Resources

About Shakespeare: Poet and Playwright

Top 10 Shakespeare Sonnets

See all 154 Shakespeare sonnets in our Shakespeare Library!

Explore Work From Black Poets

About Us

  • • A Blessing for Writers
  • • Our Story
  • • Meet Our Team
  • • Literary Citizenship
  • • Poet Laura
  • • Poetry for Life: The 5 Vital Approaches
  • • T. S. Poetry Press – All Books
  • • Contact Us

Write With Us

  • • 5 FREE Poetry Prompts-Inbox Delivery
  • • 30 Days to Richer Writing Workshop
  • • Poetry Prompts
  • • Submissions
  • • The Write to Poetry

Read With Us

  • • All Our Books
  • • Book Club
  • • Every Day Poems—Subscribe! ✨
  • • Literacy Extras
  • • Poems to Listen By: Audio Series
  • • Poet-a-Day
  • • Poets and Poems
  • • 50 States Projects
  • • Charlotte Perkins Gilman Poems Library
  • • Edgar Allan Poe Poems Arts & Experience Library
  • • William Blake Poems Arts & Experience Library
  • • William Shakespeare Sonnet Library

Celebrate With Us

  • • Poem on Your Pillow Day
  • • Poetic Earth Month
  • • Poet in a Cupcake Day
  • • Poetry at Work Day
  • • Random Acts of Poetry Day
  • • Take Your Poet to School Week
  • • Take Your Poet to Work Day

Gift Ideas

  • • Every Day Poems
  • • Our Shop
  • • Everybody Loves a Book!

Connect

  • • Donate
  • • Blog Buttons
  • • By Heart
  • • Shop for Tweetspeak Fun Stuff

Copyright © 2025 Tweetspeak Poetry · FAQ, Disclosure & Privacy Policy